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Yea sure Mayor Scruggs! You know nothing! Well at least you want the voters to think you know nothing.

And of course lets not pick on Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs the rest of the Glendale City Council members claim to know nothing about those pay raises that were given out either.

Councilman Phil Lieberman, Councilwoman Joyce Clark, and Councilwoman Yvonne Knaack also claim to know nothing about the $2 million in pay raises either.

Lets assume none of you are lying, which I doubt. Then you should all resign for not knowing what is going on in the city government your are running.

And if you did know about the pay raises you should also resign, because you seem to be working for the city employees of Glendale, rather then the Glendale taxpayers.

Source

Cash-strapped Glendale questions administrators' raises

Despite shortfalls, Glendale paid $2 mil in extra pay, bonuses

by Cecilia Chan - May. 3, 2012 09:57 PM

The Republic | azcentral.com

Bamboozled. Unfair. Incongruous.

All were words Glendale elected leaders recently used as they questioned extra pay given to some employees as the city in recent years wrestled with gaping shortfalls.

The city paid out more than $2 million in extra pay this fiscal year.

"I don't understand where all this money is coming from or how we gave so many indirect raises for so many people," Councilman Phil Lieberman said at last week's meeting. "There were not supposed to be pay increases."

Lieberman said it was "rather incongruous" for the city to put employees on unpaid leave or furloughs, while some employees received "pretty substantial increases."

Staff as recently as last year informed the council that employees would again take furloughs this year and receive no pay increases. The council received the same message the previous year.

Although Glendale didn't hand out across-the-board pay hikes, the city this fiscal year did give out nearly $2.2 million in additional pay, with half for union-negotiated increases, according to documents the city provided to The Arizona Republic, which had requested public records to show pay increases given the past three years.

The Republic for a week sought additional information from human-resources administrators, but not all questions were answered. One outstanding question was regarding the percentage of employees receiving additional pay. The Republic also sought to clarify a discrepancy in city documents over how many employees received additional pay called stability pay.

By The Republic's count, nearly half of the city's 1,228 full-time equivalent employees received additional pay this fiscal year.

The figure excludes some pay boosts that employees could receive, such as a police officer getting K-9 handler pay or a mechanic getting a tool allowance.

Mayor Elaine Scruggs said she was alerted to the pay bumps after The Republic's records request. [So the mayor claims to know nothing about this? Yea sure!!!]

The council grilled staff on the extra pay during recent budget workshops as they weighed raising taxes, laying off 51 employees and cutting community programs to close a projected $35 million shortfall next fiscal year.

City administrators said city policies outline when such pay increases are warranted, such as increases negotiated as part of council-approved union agreements, increases that accompanied promotions and increases to stay competitive. Staff also said that some of the increases were to comply with employment laws such as the equal pay act.

Councilwoman Joyce Clark said: "I feel that I was bamboozled. We were told there were no pay increases last year and all kinds of people are getting extra money."

Clark said it was time for a "come-to-Jesus meeting where we can sit down at a workshop and hear about compensation for employees, what is mandated by some kind of legislation and what is discretionary."

The council agreed to take up the issue sometime in September.

"We want to be more involved in the future," Councilwoman Yvonne Knaack said. "We need to know more. We have no idea who gets (the extra pay). We as employers should know that."